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To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   12 November [1881]

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Progress of his and Frank Darwin’s work; "all natural science seems now to depend on section-cutting".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  12 Nov [1881]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: ff. 228–9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13480

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  • 12 th My dear Dyer It was very good of you to write so long & interesting a letter, & you must have enjoyed a holiday from your never ending & always beginning labours. I have always watched with interest the Phylloxera & Vine case. Good Lord what would happen if some such pest attacked Wheat! With respect to Dischidia, Hooker suggested my son Frank, so I mentioned it to him (now in N.  Wales & catching almost daily Salmon from 10  …